FIG. 9.

Median levels (horizontal lines with values beside arrows) of HCMV antigenemia, viremia, and DNAemia and IgM ratio in fetal blood of symptomatic (sympt) and asymptomatic (asympt) congenitally infected fetuses and newborns. All parameters evaluated were significantly higher in symptomatic than in asymptomatic subjects. Fetuses were considered symptomatic if they had ultrasonographic abnormalities, and newborns were considered symptomatic if they were born with clinical symptoms. PBLs, peripheral blood leukocytes; GE, genome equivalents. (M. G. Revello and G. Gerna, unpublished data.)